Professor un-boils egg, wins parody Nobel Prize

An Adelaide scientist has won a parody Nobel Prize for inventing a machine that can un-boil an egg.

Professor Colin Raston, with the vortex fluidic device in action at the Flinders University School of Chemical and Physical Sciences (AAP Image/Flinders University) Source: FLINDERS UNIVERSITY

An eggscellent invention that can un-boil an egg, and that even has implications for cancer treatment, has won an Adelaide scientist a parody Nobel Prize.

Flinders University chemistry professor Colin Raston has taken home an Ig Nobel Prize - intended to celebrate eccentric science - for his Vortex Fluidic Device, which can unravel proteins.

Prof Raston says the device has "huge" implications for cancer treatment, pharmaceutical manufacturing, biofuel production and food processing.